""It looks like, walks like, talks like and smells like desperation to me," said the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell of Houston, an Obama supporter who backed President Bush in the past two elections. The Methodist pastor called the 2012 letter "false and ridiculous." He said it showed that some Christian conservative leaders fear that Obama's faith-based appeals to voters are working."
Yup. The right-wing Christians are really showing their true colors here. Again. I remember the anti-gay baiting ballot proposals that drove them all to the polls last election. This time it is just general FUD.
I know, I saw this in the a.m. Seriously, I am so glad this is almost over. I said it before (and was told not to put ideas in other's heads but it needs to be said again) Obama is not going to cancel Christmas if he is elected, but by the way some of those Christian conservatives are acting...
ITA, and I am not looking forward to the ALL CAPS threads that will no doubt be coming our way. I don't know what is worse: the message SOME are preaching or the non-respectful, know it all way they preach it.
"“There are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons,” said Arnold Conrad, former pastor of Grave Evangelical Free Church. “And Lord, I pray that you would guard your own reputation because they’re going to think that their god is bigger than you if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name in all that happens between now and Election Day.” http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/11/pastor-delivers-odd-invocation-at-mccain-rally/
Explain to me what's Christian about such a prayer. Sounds remarkably like the sort of prayer which Jesus himself condemned in Matthew 23--those said by the sanctimonious and self-satisfied. I don't see anything about expecting perfection in Christ's words! "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."
"Phoney" seems a singularly apt word to describe those who make such a mockery of the precepts of Christianity.
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""It looks like, walks like, talks like and smells like desperation to me," said the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell of Houston, an Obama supporter who backed President Bush in the past two elections. The Methodist pastor called the 2012 letter "false and ridiculous." He said it showed that some Christian conservative leaders fear that Obama's faith-based appeals to voters are working."
Yup. The right-wing Christians are really showing their true colors here. Again. I remember the anti-gay baiting ballot proposals that drove them all to the polls last election. This time it is just general FUD.
Doesn't that "vomit" sound like what is being posted on this board?
Did you read the "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America"?
Isn't that the truth.
"“There are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons,” said Arnold Conrad, former pastor of Grave Evangelical Free Church. “And Lord, I pray that you would guard your own reputation because they’re going to think that their god is bigger than you if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name in all that happens between now and Election Day.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/11/pastor-delivers-odd-invocation-at-mccain-rally/
Explain to me what's Christian about such a prayer. Sounds remarkably like the sort of prayer which Jesus himself condemned in Matthew 23--those said by the sanctimonious and self-satisfied. I don't see anything about expecting perfection in Christ's words!
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."
"Phoney" seems a singularly apt word to describe those who make such a mockery of the precepts of Christianity.
Gettingahandle
Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.
Facts stifle the will, hobble conviction.
Gettingahandle
Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.
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